Aviation News

Spectrum Aeronautical LLC has moved its headquarters to McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, Calif. The company says the new location is more convenient and exposes their products, a light bizjet called the Independence and a midsize aircraft dubbed Freedom, to the many business operators who use the airport… The FAA is proposing an Airworthiness Directive on […]

A 2001 Cessna 182 Turbo, N35347, white with two blue stripes, was reported stolen from Falcon Field in Arizona in the first week of May. If you have information, please contact the Aviation Crime Prevention Institute, Doug Bland, (805) 496-7181… Transport Canada has certified Columbia 350s and 400s equipped with G1000 glass cockpits… Socata Aircraft, […]

Hangar63, Banyan’s Aviation Store at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, will hold a customer appreciation day June 2 with special sales, prizes, food and free flying using simulator software in a Gulfstream II fuselage… Cirruss G3 series of turbonormalized SR22s is even cooler now that theyre available with air conditioning. Earlier turbos didnt offer that option… […]

Sens. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, have signed on to co-sponsor a new bill that provides an alternative to the FAA’s proposed reauthorization legislation. The bill has been called better than the FAA version, but still not friendly to GA… The upgraded version of the Commemorative Air Forces B-24 will be unveiled Saturday […]

Wally Schirra, an original Mercury astronaut and the only astronaut to fly in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, died last week at the age of 84… Top Gun is the greatest aviation movie of all time, according to 10,000 people who voted in an EAA poll on the subject. The 1986 Tom Cruise film earned […]

Penton’s Aircraft Bluebook has launched a new Web site that provides an online database and tools for determining the value of business and general aviation aircraft… Aviation growth in Vietnam is stymied by lack of clear regulations… Vero Beach, Fla., officials will meet with Piper Aircraft next week to make a pitch to be the […]

“Unfortunately, in a number of significant ways the [New Orleans] Lakefront Airport that would be the site of NBAA’s [2008 Convention] static display does not appear to be coming back as fast as other parts of the city,” NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen said last week. Thenew dates for NBAA’s 2008 annual convention will […]

USAF’s U-2 spyplane will make a return visit to EAA AirVenture this year as part of the Air Force’s 60th Anniversary celebrations. The aircraft will be on display in Aeroshell Square… The Dassault Falcon 7X received EASA and FAA certification in a ceremony in France on Friday. The aircraft is expected to begin service in […]

The FAA “Fact Sheet” that tries to debunk the “myths” about the agency’s proposed changes to its financing methods, which AVweb told you about last week, has been posted online… NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter WP-3 Orion aircraft will tour the East Coast next week, offering public tours at five airports from Florida to Rhode Island… When […]

S-TEC received FAA STC approval on Wednesday for installation of its standard roll-axis servo in Cirrus SR22s with System Fifty Five X autopilots. The company says the new $4,000 servo will enhance roll response when using the airplane’s autopilot… Flight1 Aviation Technologies’ Avidyne EXP5000 primary flight display PC-based courseware has been accepted as a FAA/Industry […]